Installation

Requirements

Laravel Restify has a few requirements that you should be mindful of before installing:

PHP >= 8.0

Laravel Framework >= 8.0 for Restify <= 6.x

Laravel Framework >= 9.0 for Restify >= 7.x

Installation

composer require binaryk/laravel-restify

Setup

After the installation, the package requires a setup process:

php artisan restify:setup

The command above:

publishes the config/restify.php configuration file
creates the providers/RestifyServiceProvider and will add it in the config/app.php
creates a new app/Restify directory
creates an abstract app/Restify/Repository.php
scaffolds a app/Restify/UserRepository repository for users CRUD

Package Stability

If you are not able to install Restify into your application because of your minimum-stability setting, consider setting your minimum-stability option to dev and your prefer-stable option to true. This will allow you to install Laravel Restify while still preferring stable package releases for your application.

Quick start

Having the package setup and users table migrated, you should be good to perform the first API request:

GET: /api/restify/users?perPage=10&page=2

or use the json api format:

GET: /api/restify/users?page[size]=10&page[number]=2

This should return the users list paginated and formatted according to JSON:API standard.

Configurations

Prefix

As you can see, the default prefix for the restify api is /api/restify. This can be changed from the app/restify.php file:

'base' => '/api/restify',

Middleware

One important configuration is the restify's default middleware:

// config/restify.php

'middleware' => [
    'api',
    // 'auth:sanctum',
    Binaryk\LaravelRestify\Http\Middleware\DispatchRestifyStartingEvent::class,
    Binaryk\LaravelRestify\Http\Middleware\AuthorizeRestify::class,
]

Sanctum authentication

Normally, you would want to authenticate your api (allow access only to authenticated users). For this purpose, you can simply add another middleware. For the sanctum, you can add the auth:sanctum. Make sure you put this right after api middleware.

Restify also provides the EnsureJsonApiHeaderMiddleware middleware, which enforces you to use the application/application-json Accept header for your API requests. If you prefer to add this middleware, when using the Postman/Insomnia API client, make sure that this Accept header is applied.

Generate repository

Creating a new repository can be done via restify command:

php artisan restify:repository PostRepository

If you want to generate the Policy, Model, and migration as well, then you can use the --all option:

php artisan restify:repository PostRepository --all

Generate policy

Since the authorization is based on using the Laravel Policies, a good way of generating a complete policy for an entity is by using the restify command:

php artisan restify:policy PostPolicy